| Literature DB >> 20828122 |
Gadarla Randheer Reddy1, Walter C Thompson, Stephen C Miller.
Abstract
Firefly luciferase utilizes the chemical energy of ATP and oxygen to convert its substrate, D-luciferin, into an excited-state oxyluciferin molecule. Relaxation of this molecule to the ground state is responsible for the yellow-green light emission. Synthetic cyclic alkylaminoluciferins that allow robust red-shifted light emission with the modified luciferase Ultra-Glo are described. Overall light emission is higher than that of acyclic alkylaminoluciferins, aminoluciferin, and the native substrate D-luciferin.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 20828122 PMCID: PMC3259732 DOI: 10.1021/ja104525m
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Am Chem Soc ISSN: 0002-7863 Impact factor: 15.419